Shade

Rock star, drug addict, or geriatric on the rebound from cataract surgery, she said, are the only legitimate personas for sunglass-wearing.

But what about style and flirtation and Jackie O?

What about beaches and tan lines and ocean-stained copies of Time?

What about adolescence and wrinkled hot dogs and the velvety shores of Jersey?

Do you have an opinion on the grammatically stunted drugstore novel or the vulgarity of toe rings?

What of that sapphire swimsuit that’s missing three jewels and chapped lips and that obscene practice permissible only after achieving a stupefied state of tourism (long after fanny packs and card decks) known as bike-renting?

Seriously, Mother, what do you make of chuckling quietly at women whose shrunken, upturned noses can’t support their aviators, or that psychedelic rainbow emitted by misshapen lenses, rivaled only by oil leaks in the parking lots of supermarkets?

Nonsense. UV rays are fictionalized by the same people who invented evolution and global warming and NASA.

No daughter of mine shall subscribe to that mongering, that hullabaloo. You’ll just have to squint.

But when she turned, I shaded my rusty eyes anyway, if for no other reason than to shield myself for a little while against that blinding light source called humanity.

UV rays are a fact, and you say they are fictionalized by the same people who believe in evolution, global warming, and nasa. But but, Nasa is a fact, and Global Warming is a fact. But Evolution is a theoryyy. Which makes no sense to me!!

Its kind of like science against religion. Some people think that global warming is just stupid. They think that "God" will save us. They think evolution is unrealistic and that we were made humans from the beginning. by God. Also, they believe that NASA is an unnecessary, unethical organization created by people to gain profit and nothing else.

whoa, you used a lot of big words in this! that makes it more effictive...but i dont really get it. its nothing against you, jusy my lack of knowledge to understand things. but i do love it and judging by the other comments its a great poem! keep up the excellent work! :)